For this project, we worked with a classmate and we were given a PDF of a graduation speech by Bill Moyers for the University of Texas at Austin to make it into a pamphlet and a website. We worked on InDesign and I learned how to work with document grids, guidelines, and with the x-height. It was a challenge to organize the context in order to not have hyphens, widows, orphans, or rivers. Once we had all the context organized, we picked important phrases and add them as quotes, bolder and with a bigger font size. We added the two lines on top and bottom on each quote to keep the pamphlet consistent. We printed and cut a couple of copies to make sure we had a great result and I am very satisfied with both pamphlet and website.

 

For this project, we were assigned a typeface designed y one of our classmates and make 3 posters. One with any letter, another one with the quote the typeface was based on, and the last one with the all the characters and glyphs. At the time, I was very excited with color so I decided to use a gradient with the rainbow colors. We were supposed to use only two colors but I was allowed to use the gradient. I spent most of the time on the poster with the letter because I had to color every square that flows from the letter. Overall I have everything we were asked for but creative wise I believe I could have done better starting with choosing a better color palette.

 

 

 

The purpose of the Typeface Design assignment was to design a typeface using Fontstruct based on a quote we were given. My quote was “Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.” I designed my typeface in a way that it can differ from others  but I kept it legible. I tried to use the same ornaments on all of them to maintain cohesion. The hardest part was when I was designing the glyphs because they were very transformed when they had the two ornaments so I decided to only add the bumps. I named my typeface “Flow Art” because the bumps on the letters gave me the feeling of a flowing rhythm.